Who isn’t striving to get better in some area of his/her professional or personal life? If you or someone on your team has a development need or simply a desire for continuous improvement, I have a book recommendation for you. It is FYI For Your Improvement, a guide for development and coaching. In its fourth edition, the book was recommended to me by Robin Shapiro, president and COO of Allied Health Advocates and founder of Health Advocacy Strategies, and it is fantastic.
FYI For Your Improvement contains recommendations for people with specific needs. It lists key skills such as conflict management, informing, work-life balance, and listening, and provides definitions so you can determine what an unskilled, skilled or overused skill would look like for a particular competency.
For instance, if perhaps you want to be more action oriented, the authors of FYI spell out the behaviors that are associated with someone who is unskilled (e.g. the person maybe slow to act or overly methodical). Then they explain what skilled and overused skill would look like. They then provide ideas for practical remedies and suggested readings on the topic so one can come up with a general development plan.
I know this will be another book that I routinely pick up and rely on as I coach individuals at a variety of levels in our organization. and it will be a resource for me as I continue my professional growth. With a collective 167 competencies, performance dimensions, career stallers and more, this book gives readers a comprehensive body of material for development and coaching.